pickups- testing and opion

Gary Rue · From: Maryland, USA

For the record, I have been cramming testing, and design drawing because of rain stopping my daytime job. I will disappear from my glorious steel guitar snow days as soon as the sun goes back to work.

I was surprized how subtle pickup test were compared to what I was hearing with steel guitars in for repairs and from my collection. My test lead me to believe that construction type and chambers in the instrument and the body thickness were huge variables. I also noticed that the front thicker neck on many dbl. neck steels was not as loud. (yes I turned the guitar around). I am also under the opinion that some console steels are very underated. Wherever my dlb. 8 rickenbacker console is the owner has a gem. Chambers are big tone adjusters. Wood types were also big. Very loose rule of thumb is "Lighter is louder". I have a chunk of sugar pine I would love use but it's going on a 53 tele neck I got that had a broken headstock. Sap content and age are hard to measure but it's also in there big time. Talk again, dont know when.

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